The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four
daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who
takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
They carry with them everything they believe they will need
from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to
Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What
follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing
and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three
decades in postcolonial Africa.

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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce,
evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry
with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from
garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a
suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of
three decades in postcolonial Africa.